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The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries
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Capitals and Capabilities: A Framework for Analyzing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop an analytical framework for analyzing rural livelihoods in terms of their sustainability and their implications for rural poverty, arguing that the analysis of rural livelihood needs to understand people's access to five types of capital asset and the ways in which they combine and transform those assets in the building of livelihoods that as far as possible meet their material and their experiential needs.
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A Theory of Access.
Jesse C. Ribot,Nancy Lee Peluso +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define access as the ability to derive benefits from things, broadening from property's clas- sical definition as "the right to benefit from things" and examine a broad set of factors that differentiate access from property.
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Sustainable development: a critical review
TL;DR: A review of the literature that has sprung up around the concept of sustainable development indicates, however, a lack of consistency in its interpretation as mentioned in this paper, leading to inadequacies and contradictions in policy making in the context of international trade, agriculture, and forestry.
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Resilience thinking meets social theory: Situating social change in socio-ecological systems (SES) research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the extension of resilience notions to society has important limits, particularly its conceptualization of social change, and suggest that critically examining the role of knowledge at the intersections between social and environmental dynamics helps to address normative questions and to capture how power and competing value systems are not external to, but rather integral to the development and functioning of SES.
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People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
William M. Adams,Jon Hutton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the political ecology of conservation, particularly the establishment of protected areas (PAs), and dis-cuss the implications of the idea of pristine nature, the social impacts of and the politics of PA establishment and the way the benefits and costs of PAs are allocated.
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Understanding the factors leading to conflicts among agropastoralist and farming communities in Morogoro region, Tanzania, and their implications for wellbeing : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Table of Table of Terms of Reference ( Table 1.1.1) for the work of this article.Acknowledgements and acknowledgements
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Why Gender Equity Matters In Marine Protected Areas (Mpa): Taking Examples From Mangrove Conservation Initiatives In Catanduanes Island, Luzon
TL;DR: Masagca et al. as discussed by the authors presented insights on gender equity issues mangrove conservation restoration; social representations (SR) of the dimension of innovations, and indicated that the lack of adequate space for crops and animal farming, extreme weather disturbances due to typhoons in the island and the government's inability to enable women to fully engage in and benefit from marine conservation programs.
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Observing Developmental Intervention in Mineral-rich Adivasi Subsistence Economy: An Ethnographic Account from West Singhbhum (Jharkhand):
Dhiraj Kumar,Nihar Ranjan Mishra +1 more
TL;DR: The shift of the political economy of development from the Nehruvian model to the Neoliberal market model has relocated the discourses and practices of development as discussed by the authors, and a state becomes a facilitator, p...
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Access Revisited: An Introduction to the Special Issue
TL;DR: As political economic forces at every scale and locus are transforming nature and society, struggles are mounting over access to natural resources as discussed by the authors, and wide-ranging and deepening inequality (e.g. Hicke...
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Competing Discourses of Sustainability in African Agriculture: A Case Study of the Sustainable Agriculture Discourse of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of sustainable agriculture and the green revolution in African agriculture and discuss the structure of the Thesis and its structure in the context of literature.